Quotes on Calcutta

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask yourself “How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?” Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

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 we could use.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.