Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.