Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.

It is normal for husband and wife to argue: it's normal. It always happens. But my advice is this: never let the day end without having first made peace. Never!

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

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.