I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!

We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

May the deepest spiritual values of the Filipino people continue to find expression in your efforts to provide your fellow citizens with an integral human development. In this way, each person will be able to fulfill his or her potential, and thus contribute wisely and well to the future of this country.

Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel.