Jesus was crucified, not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves.
There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross. Christ’s cross is such a burden
as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.
He came to pay a debt He didn’t owe because we owed a debt we couldn’t pay.
All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell is terribly afraid of it,
while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.
The cross: God’s way of uniting suffering with love.
The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.
The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God’s wrath to Christ so that only the
light of His love remains for believers.
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the
fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do,
and more in the light of what they suffer.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. 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.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless.
The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child,
what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the
graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
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