We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction.

God is not afraid of new things.

They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.