How Can We Share Our Faith With Others?

"The persuasive power of the message also depends on the credibility of its messengers. Indeed, the new evangelization starts with us, with our lifestyle. The Church today does not need part-time Catholics but full-blooded Christians."

"We must truly give thanks to the Lord, who gives us the opportunity to witness to the Gospel with simplicity, becoming apostles of fidelity and hope on the paths of this world."

"In the Eucharist, Christ makes himself all things to everyone, to make us one in him; then he sends us out to witness to his love to our brothers and sisters."

"Bear witness to Jesus. Place your hope firmly in him, and let your words and deeds speak courageously of this hope to others."

"Serve Christ in your family and friends, and in all those you meet on life’s path."

"The Church’s universal mission does not rise from below but descends from above, from the Holy Spirit, as if imbued with the universality of Trinitarian love."

"In her reading of social problems, the Church stands in a vital spot which transcends the limits of human history in its purely temporal dimension. She never confuses the kingdom of God with the construction of the city of man."

"Today is not the time to hide the Gospel, but to ‘proclaim it on the housetops.’"

"As the Father sent Christ, so Christ sends us to bring his message of love to the world. This is the light humanity needs. May we be the torches that bring it to the people of the third millennium."

"Proclaim and give witness to the Gospel of life!"

"The wounds of humanity cannot leave us indifferent; we must heal, console and care for the multitudes of suffering individuals and peoples."

"Peace is a precious gift from God, to be sought in prayer and promoted with reverence."

"Keep the Christian faith, announce it in word and deed, help others to believe that God is the merciful Father of all humanity, that Jesus Christ is the Savior in whom we are reborn to new life, that the Holy Spirit is the guiding force of our lives."

"Evangelizers must patiently accept the times of evangelization, sometimes slow, sometimes even very slow, aware that God, to whom ‘the times and seasons’ belong, tirelessly guides the course of history with sovereign wisdom."

"The Church today needs coherent witnesses and credible proclaimers of the faith, so that Christians may experience life in Christ and may know how to discern divine and human realities according to the Spirit of God."

"The Church’s universal mission unfolds in time and is fulfilled throughout human history."

"The Gospel proclamation must always be renewed. It must become ever more complete and profound, even in regions and cultures evangelized long ago. It must begin again every day, until the coming of the ‘last day’ (cf. Jn. 12:48)."

"It is more necessary than ever to think and work in order to incarnate lasting Gospel values in the new social situation, so that it is not deprived of its soul."

"There is a need for heralds of the Gospel who are experts in humanity, who have a profound knowledge of the heart of present day man, participating in his joys and hopes, anguish and sadness, and who are at the same time contemplatives in the love of God. For this we need new saints. We must supplicate the Lord to increase the Church’s spirit of holiness and send us new saints to evangelize today’s world."

"Let the Lord involve you in his mission. Do not make conditions and reservations."