True faith in God, then, is inseparable from personal holiness, just as it is from the search for justice.

- Homily, 25 January 2013

Justice is achieved only when people are just!

- Address, 7 January 2013

Our justice will be all the more perfect the more motivated it is by love for God and for our brethren.

- Address at Rome's Rebibbia District Prison

18 December 2011

We do not of course desire the end of the world. Nevertheless, we do want this unjust world to end. We also want the world to be fundamentally changed, we want the beginning of the civilization of love, the arrival of a world of justice and peace, without violence, without hunger. We want all this, yet how can it happen without Christ's presence? Without Christ's presence there will never be a truly just and renewed world.

- General Audience, 12 November 2008

The vigilance of Advent means to live unter the eyes of the Judge and to prepare ourselves and the world for justice. By living under the eyes of the God-Judge, we can open the world to the arrival of his Son, preparing our hearts to welcome "the Lord who comes."

- General Audience, 19 December 2007

The Christian significance of waiting for justice implies that we begin to live under the eyes of the Judge, according to the criteria of the Judge; that we begin to live in his presence, rendering justice in our lives. By being just, putting ourselves in the presence of the Judge, we await Justice.

- General Audience, 19 December 2007