QUOTES
When
a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care
of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person
what he or she needed
The
poor must know that we love them, that they are wanted. They themselves have nothing
to give but love. We are concerned with how to get this message of love across.
We are trying to bring peace to the world through our work.
"Love
cannot remain by itself-it has no meaning, Love has to be put into action and
that action is service... All works of love are works of peace."
"Peace
starts with a smile"
Let
us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love
and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
"If
we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"Do
not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
"Kind
words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
We
don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring peace - just get together, love
one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other
in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
I was
once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will
never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
All
works of love are works of peace.
It
is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
"Spread
love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children,
to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you
without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness;
kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness
in your warm greeting."
We
ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean
would be less because of that missing drop.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
If
we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
"It
is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."
"...I
only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could
use."
"I
don't do great things. I do small things with great love."
See
how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon
and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
