The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbour.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

love people and serve them.

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.