We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Having faith does not mean having no difficulties, but having the strength to face them, knowing we are not alone.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

God has purpose for every man to fulfill certain tasks and attain concrete goals

Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.

If you give a party, you better give it right.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.