“The Eucharist prepares us for a place in eternity, because it is the Bread of Heaven.”

The Lord is the first to trust in you, and He also invites you to trust in yourselves.

The memory of the Saints leads us to raise our eyes to Heaven: not to forget the realities of the earth, but to face them with more courage and hope.

The revolution of tenderness begins in the heart of the family.

Love is more than a mere feeling. To love means to do good.

If we lose our memory, we destroy our future.

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

We multiply the joy God gives us by sharing it.

Violence never brings peace. War leads to war, violence leads to violence.

We were not created for death, but for life in abundance: eternal life.

Each one of us has infinite value for God: we may be small under heaven and powerless when the earth trembles, but for God we are more precious than anything.

If we learn to read everything in the light of the Holy Spirit, we realize that everything is grace.

God created the world with a great variety of flowers of all colours.

Each one of us is a love story with God.

Prayer gives us nobility. I t is capable of securing our relationship with God who is the true Companion on the journey of every man and woman.

Life is not the time for possessing but for loving.

When we welcome this divine love, then we can respond similarly.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.