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“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”
“God hasn't called us to be successful, just faithful.”
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
“The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.”
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
“Joy is strength.”
“He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.”
“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”
“Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
“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.”
“In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”
“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”
“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
“If I look at the mass I will never act.”
“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”