June 21

If we are full of sin, God cannot fill us, because even God himself cannot fill what is full. That's why we need forgiveness to become empty, and then God fills us with Himself.

June 20

It is easy to love people far away, very easy to think of the hungry people in India. You must see first that there is love at home and at your next-door neighbour's and in the street you live in, in the town you live in and only then outside.

June 19

Often when you see small and big wires, new and old, cheap and expensive electric cable that are useless, for until the current passes through them there will be no light. The wires are you and me, the current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us - to use us - or refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

June 18

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray - feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you don't want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervour of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

June 17

Dear God, when it comes to helping those in need, help me to see more than myself. I don't think there is anyone who needs God's grace and help more than I do. feel so foresaken and confused at times. And I think that is exactly why God uses me, because I cannot claim any credit for what gets done. On the contrary, I need His help twenty-four hours a day.

June 16

In Yemen, which is entirely a Muslim country, I asked one of the rich people to build a Masjid there. People needed a place to pray, I said to him. They are all Muslim brothers and sisters. They need to have a place where they can meet God.

June 15

Overcome the finite with the infinite. Christ has created you because He wanted you. I know what you feel - terrible longing, with dark emptiness - and yet, He is the one in love with you. I do not know if you have seen these few lines before, but they fill and empty me: "My God, my God, what is a heart that thou shouldst so eye and woo, pouring upon it all thy heart, as though it thou hadst nothing else to do?"