And the Petrine Primacy has this mandate to make unity visible and concrete in the historical, concrete multiplicity, in the unity of past, present and eternity.

- Address, 29 July 2010

This is a burden that no one could bear on his own, with his own strength alone, and which he is only able to carry because the Lord carries us and carries me.

- Address, 29 July 2010

Entrusting oneself to God does not mean seeing everything clearly according to our own criteria, it does not mean doing what we have planned; entrusting oneself to God means emptying oneself of oneself, renouncing oneself, for only those who accept to lose themselves for God can be called "just", like St. Joseph, that is, can conform their will to God's and so fulfill themselves.

- Address, 5 July 2010

Here is the badge (distinctive sign) of the Christian: he is never an individualist.

- Address to young people, 4 July 2010

Dear Friends, faith and prayer do not solve problems but rather enable us to face them with fresh enlightenment and strength, in a way that is worthy of the human being and also more serenely and effectively.

- Address to young people, 4 July 2010

If prayer should alienate you, remove you from your real life, be on your guard it would not be true prayer! On the contrary, dialogue with God is a guarantee of truth, of truth with ourselves and with others and hence of freedom. Being with God, listening to his word, in the Gospel and in the Church's Liturgy, protects you from the dazzle of pride and presumption, from fashions and conformism, and gives you the strength to be truly free, even from certain temptations masked by good things.

- Address to young people, 4 July 2010

...all that is essential in our existence was bestowed upon us without our contribution. The fact that I am alive does not depend on me. The fact there were people who introduced me to life, who taught me what it means to love and to be loved, who handed down the faith to me and opened my eyes to God: all this is Grace, it was not "done by me."

- Homily, 4 July 2010

...let us not fear to create silence, within and outside ourselves, if we wish to be able to become aware of God's voice but also to make out the voice of the person beside us, the voices of others.

- Homily, 4 July 2010

Indeed, holiness never loses its power of attraction, it does not fade into oblivion, it never goes out of fashion; on the contrary, with the passage of time it shines out ever more brightly, expressing man's perrenial effort to reach God.

- Homily, 4 July 2010

Our path as individuals will one day lead us into the valley of the shadow of death, where no one can accompany us. Yet he will be there. Christ himself descended into the dark night of death. Even there he will not abandon us. Even there he will lead us.

- Homily, 11 June 2010

We have to beg for workers for God's harvest, and this petition to God is, at the same time, his own way of knocking on the hearts of young people who consider themselves able to do what God considers them able to do.

- Homily, 11 June 2010