Shocking Sayings

My message is always the same: love, compassion, and forgiveness.

Human beings by nature are compassionate.

If you have fear, you don't have peace.

My only weapon is truth.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I think the purpose of life is to be happy.

We need to understand that inner peace is the key to world peace.

I remain convinced that the basic human nature is gentle and compassionate.

Who am I to judge a gay person seeking the Lord with good will?

Hypocrisy is the devil's preferred language.

There are cases in which separation is inevitable. Sometimes, it can even be morally necessary, when it comes to shielding the weaker spouse or young children from more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation and exploitation,…

It is not true that the poor are a burden. The poor are a resource.

An economic system that has as its center the god of money needs to be denounced, because it is a system that kills.

The greatest evil that can happen in the Church is spiritual worldliness.

Sometimes I have to take a tranquilizer to sleep. I keep calm. If I have a problem, I write it down on a piece of paper and give it to St. Joseph. Now he sleeps on it! And I sleep too. It’s a good way to rest.

Many speak of the Pope and the Church, but without understanding what the Pope and the Church are. They speak as if they were journalists, but they are not. They are ideologues.

I believe that when there is a lack of work, a family is suffering, a child is suffering, and when the elderly have no dignity, that is when society is suffering.

We are living in a culture of waste. This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste of food, which is even more despicable when many men and women, children and elderly, still suffer and die from hunger and malnutrition.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalize people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Slander is worse than murder. Slander kills the reputation of a person. It is worse than murder because even if you kill, you can repent and go to heaven. But slander kills the soul of the person.