- Address to the Course on the Internal Forum, 7 March 2008
23 March 2008
Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their ego and their heart is hardened in sin. Those, on the other hand, who recognize that they are weak and sinful entrust themselves to God and obtain from him grace and forgiveness.
- Address to the Course on the Internal Forum, 7 March 2008
No believer should die in loneliness and neglect.
- Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, 25 February 2008
When, at the moment of death, the relationship with God is fully realized in the encounter with "him who does not die, who is Life itself and Love itself, then we are in life; then we "live'" (Spe Salvi, n. 27).
- Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, 25 February 2008
The Lord of life is present beside the sick person as the One who lives and gives life, the One who said: "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly" (Jn 10:10).
- Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, 25 February 2008
The earthly experience concludes with death, but through death full and definitive life beyond time unfolds for each one of us.
- Address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, 25 February 2008
The further the human being distances himself from God, the more closely God pursues him with his merciful love.
- Homily, 24 February 2008
Faith is born from the encounter with Jesus, recognized and accepted as the definitive Revealer and Saviour in whom God's Face is revealed.
- Homily, 24 February 2008
- Homily, 24 February 2008
If there is a physical thirst for water that is indispensable for life on this earth, there is also a spiritual thirst in man that God alone can satisfy.
- Homily, 24 February 2008
Every believer is in danger of practising a false religiosity, of not seeking in God the answer to the most intimate expectations of the heart but on the contrary, treating God as though he were at the service of our desires and projects.
- Homily, 24 February 2008
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