For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.