Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

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

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.