“This world is the first miracle God made. God has placed the grace of new wonders in our hands.”

God is with those who seek peace. From heaven He blesses every step which, on this path, is accomplished.

We must never forget that the natural environment is a collective good, the patrimony of all humanity and the responsibility of everyone.

The Lord has so much compassion, He involves Himself in our problems.

Go and show love to everyone, because your life is a precious mission: it is not a burden to be borne, but a gift to offer.

In our darkest moments, when we sin or are disoriented, we always have an appointment with God.

It’s good not to do evil. But it’s evil not to do good.

Mary is a woman who walks with the grace and the tenderness of a mother; she unties all the knots of the many problems we manage to create, and she teaches us to stand upright in the midst of storms.

Together, athletes and helpers show us that there are no obstacles or barriers which cannot be overcome.

Every flower has its beauty, which is unique.

The courage to encounter one another and extend a hand of friendship is a pathway of peace and harmony for humanity.

To pray we must lower ourselves, so that the Holy Spirit may come into us and guide us in prayer.

The Sorrowful Virgin whose pierced heart mourned the death of Jesus now grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for the creatures of this world laid waste by human power.

Hope is not utopian and peace is a good that can always be attained.

The Holy Spirit loves to shape unity from the most beautiful and harmonious diversity.

The Lord does not abandon us! Even if we are men and women ‘of little faith.

The value of indigenous communities needs to be recognized and their full participation in society supported.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

Obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.

The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.