To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope.

War is not to be waged in the name of God.

Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

To be an ambassador for Christ means to invite everyone to a personal encounter with Jesus

I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.