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

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.