“Families are a kind of leaven that helps to make the world more humane and more fraternal, where no one feels rejected or abandoned.”

Sports help us to spread a culture of encounter and solidarity.

Only by giving our life do we conquer evil.

Women make the world beautiful, they protect it and keep it alive.

Seek the Lord in prayer: He is the one who has called you.

When we listen to the Word of God, we obtain the courage and perseverance to offer the best of ourselves to others.

Let us pray in silence that the Lord will give us this grace.

Prayer gives time back to God. It makes us step away from the obsession of a life that is always lacking time and rediscover the peace of necessary things.

Without prayer, our life and mission loses all its meaning, strength and fervor.

A youthful heart does not tolerate injustice and cannot bow to a “throw-away culture” nor give in to the globalization of indifference.

The divine gift of life must be promoted, guarded, and protected from conception to its natural end.

Faith must lead us believers to see other persons as our brothers and sisters that we need to support and love.

No tolerance for racism, but without violence.

God loves you, and this is something on which all our religious traditions are agreed.

Do not judge, do not condemn; forgive. And you will be merciful like the Father.

Humility and tenderness are not virtues of the weak, but of the strong.

The ability to be surprised is hidden in all of our hearts.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

I’ve never abandoned the novel.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.