The cross is the price of true love. Lord, give us the strength to accept and carry our crosses!

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and joy.

May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.