When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

As you may gather, love is my most favorite principle, and dedication is the core of love. Whoever commits himself to developing just one genuine life-building principle receives the benefit of the rest.

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Listen to me, my friend. My beloved Lord is within me; I am dissolved in His love.

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

With love, even the rocks will open.

A mother's love knows no bounds, it is everlasting and unconditional.

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

Love your neighbor as yourself. — Matthew 22:39

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Life is a flow of love.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.

If you think that nobody loves you, the problem is that you have not learnt how to love others. Because if you have learnt to love others, you will be satisfied millions of times giving love than looking for it. And when you give love, spontaneously and naturally people reciprocate. People love those who love them. It’s human nature.

Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.