Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?

The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom.

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

The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.