God does not abandon us...his love comes to us where we are, with our misery and our weakness, to offer us a new possibility of goodness.

- Letter to Romans on Education

He is the One Redeemer and invites everyone to the banquet of immortal life; but on one and the same condition: that of striving to follow and imitate him, taking up one's cross as he did, and devoting one's life to serving the brethren. This condition for entering heavenly life is consequently one and universal.

-Angelus Address, 26 August 2007