Crazy Love

 To journey with the poor is to journey with Jesus. - Rey Ortega

I'm blessed to read a very inspiring book like this. I pray that God will use this as an instrument for you to see His favorites; the poor, in a different way. Just like the author, may we all be like Jesus and be crazy in love with others. Be blessed! =)

Here are some of my favorite extracts:

- Since I cannot pray well, I decided to serve well. The only way I can worship God effectively and with meaning is by serving the poor. p13

- "When a poor die 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...It has happened because we did not recognize Christ when He appeared under the guise of pain". -Mother Teresa p15

- We cannot in real conscience refuse to help a really needy person, even if in the process we "are fooled" by nine others. That beggar could be an angel whose wings turned invisible. Or Jesus in disguise tugging at our hearts, asking us if we could allow Him to eat for the day. p30

- "I've discovered something cruel in the streets: I see a lot of kid's eyes that no longer have hope in them. They just stare blankly at you. All hope is gone. I wonder why we can be so kind to our own children - but leave other kids to die. -Bo Sanchez p32

- ...we have to see Jesus in every person. p35

- To journey with the poor is to journey with Jesus. p39

- We become poor when we lose the capacity to feel the pain and hear the cries and see the eyes of hopelessness among the poor in our midst. p41

- For God loves the poor passionately. We are called to do likewise. p42

- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were missing, the ocean would lack something. -Mother Teresa

- We just said yes to Him.
And God surprised us.  p74

- Love is free; it is not practiced as a way of achieving other ends. But this does not mean that charitable activity must somehow leave God and Christ aside. For it is always concerned with the whole man. Often the deepest cause of suffering is the very absence of God. - Pope Benedict XVI

- It is an act of obedience to God's command to reach out to the poor, to manifest our love for God by our love for the poor. p112

- Give because you want to, not because you have to. p113

- No one is so rich that he has no need of help from others and no one is so poor that he cannot give to others. p114

- A jobless father helping other jobless fathers. The poor reaching out to the poor. I believe this is what Christianity means. p117