When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.