Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.

Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.