How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives.

You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Let us never lose hope! God loves us always, even with our mistakes and sins.