Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 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. Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor? If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. If you judge people, you have no time to love them. In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. Intense love does not measure, it just gives. It is a kingly act to assist the fallen. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. 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. 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. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
There are no great things, only small things with great love. There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. 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. We are all pencils in the hand of God. We can do no great things, only small things with great love. 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.
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