All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.

In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices.

A Christian who does not protect Creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God, that work that was born from the love of God for us. And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.