Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.