I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!

Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!