Dear young people of every language and culture, a high and exhilarating task awaits you: that of becoming men and women capable of solidarity, peace and love of life, with respect for everyone. Become craftsmen of a new humanity, where brothers and sisters - members all of the same family - are able at last to live in peace.

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

The Church must breathe with her two lungs!

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.