“Men and women bear God’s image within and are the object of His infinite love, in whatever condition they were called into existence.”

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.

The personal encounter with refugees dispels fears and distorted ideologies and becomes a factor for growth in humanity.

Aptitude for listening urges us to create bridges of communication.

Let us protect the heritage that God has entrusted to us so that future generations may enjoy it.

None of us shines with our own light: the light that we have is a reflection of the grace of God, of the light of God.

Solidarity gives rise to openness towards others.

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

It is not easy to live in the light. The light makes us see many ugly things within us: vices, pride, the worldly spirit.

Each of us is beautiful in God’s eyes, and God loves us.

Consecrated life is a living encounter with the Lord in his people.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Women bring the grace of renewal, the embrace of inclusion, and the courage to give of oneself.

Those who care for the little ones are on God’s side and defeat the culture of waste.

The Trinity is therefore Love, all in service of the world, which He wishes to save and recreate.

Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them.

The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

If there is something comforting – religious, if you want – about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.