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If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that...more

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In the course of my intellectual life I experienced very acutely the problem of whether it isn't actually presumptuous to say that we can know the tru...more

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All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly ...more

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I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - whi...more

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God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible.

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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revela...more

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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision ...more

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The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

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Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.

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Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolat...more

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How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and fre...more

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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic cannot be content to...more

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The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to d...more

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On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in a...more