The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!