Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

What happens when people are raised on a steady diet of "You are great, you can do anything, you deserve it, you are the best, you can get what you want"? Sooner or later they find that they are not great, they can't do everything, they are not the best, and they can't control it all. Depression and denial are the only two options left.

The church must always show compassion, always.

Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, "Love responds to Love alone" and has little to do with duty, obligation, requirement, or heroic anything. It is easy to surrender when you know that nothing but Love and Mercy is on the other side.

Fullness in a person cannot permit love because there are no openings, no handles, no give-and-take, and no deep hunger.

The Genesis story of the Judeo—Christian Tradition is really quite extraordinary. It says that we originate from free and overflowing love. This flow will be rediscovered and re-experienced by various imperfect people throughout the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This sets us on a positive and hopeful foundation, which cannot be overstated.