"Spiritual care should be provided by priests with appropriate training and who serve professionally. In our theological educational institutions, we want to educate a pleiad of chaplains who would serve alongside those defending us. That is why the slogan "to be there for them" is not trite, as it reflects the essence of chaplaincy itself."

"For the church of Christ, a hospital has always been a place where not only the body but also the soul is helped and treated. For us, as a church, it has always been a priority to be in a hospital, to be near the poor, the hurt, the wounded, the weak and the sick."

"The world order itself is at stake. There is no going back, as this would be to choose slavery. Man was created in the image of God. All human beings have the fundamental right to live in freedom on their land and to the benefits of being children of God."

"The adding of saints' names from other Churches of the Catholic communion to our Menologion underscores our openness and respect for the traditions of sanctity in both the Western Church and other Eastern Catholic Churches."

"It has been the most dreadful and difficult thing for me to cope with in my life as a priest. It is very difficult to give answers to the questions people put to you as a bishop."

"Listen not to human fears, but look at it from God's perspective."

"Perhaps the Holy Father chose me because he knows that the Salesians are good with the most difficult boys, and there is work there."

"It is important not to stop praying now: this is the moment when prayer is our strongest weapon. We must believe in peace, invoke it in all possible ways and teach our young people who are experiencing the horror of war, the value of life."

"Everything we possess and have here, which we consider to be wealth, is not valuable because everything can be lost overnight and that it has its value and meaning for us only when there is true God's peace."

"We ask for solidarity. Do not forget us because if we are forgotten and abandoned, this earthquake that we are experiencing in Ukraine today will shake the entire world. We have hope that true solidarity saves lives; solidarity can help us find solutions that perhaps we have not yet identified today. Do not forget Ukraine; do not abandon us in our mourning and pain."

"All that we are experiencing now, the horror of war, is actually so terrible because it touches, above all, ordinary people, poor people who lived normally in families and led normal lives, and now our boys die at the front, women become widows, children become orphans."

"The beatification and the canonisation of Fr. Stefano Czmil would be an enrichment for the Ukrainian Church. A small piece in the mosaic of the holiness of our people, because through Fr. Stepan we shall be enriching ourselves with the holiness of Don Bosco, who with his inspirational holiness opened the doors of holiness not only to religious, martyrs and to the faithful but especially to the young, following the example of fourteen year old Saint Dominic Savio, his pupil."

"Peace is fragile. It can be extinguished like the flame of a candle. By blowing on it just once. So let us try to foster wherever we are a peace-enhancing, peace-protecting and peace-sustaining environment. Let us not allow evil to steal peace. And please help our country, because peace in Europe depends on the peace in Ukraine."

"Although I have the mentality of Western Ukrainians, I love these people. I asked to be sent to eastern Ukraine, because I am a missionary; I am a Redemptorist, and our charism is to go to the people who are most abandoned. These people have very good and open hearts."

"If we look at the Church as a community, we will be able to grow, if we look ourselves as Church of physical buildings it will be hard for us to see Christ and grow."

"Without a doubt, these children deserve a hope. By loving them, we need to show them that life can be different. Yes, their life is hard today, but tomorrow – with hope and trust in God – it will be different"

"Even if the Pope's project ends, the Church will in fact continue to give its help and stay close to the people."

"Anyone who creates a society, including the church and all its members – the hierarchy, clergy, laity – shares the responsibility for our social and political ills. The fact that the church now enjoys almost the greatest level of trust in the Ukrainian society makes us genuinely wonder why the doctrine of the church, its teachings and calls, have such a hard time finding their way into the daily lives of the faithful and our society in general. No matter how loud the preaching of the church, however, the last word will always be from the people, from their free choice: to be on the side of good and truth, or continue to walk in the darkness of sin and iniquity."

"If I think about my life, I realize that it’s been always on the road and in constant motion. You always have to check whether you have the right amount of luggage, what things you have to leave behind and which ones to buy. This way of living is exciting as you don’t get attached to a place – you're free. The church is calling me to work far away. By living in a monastery, I've learnt to be mobile. We are often asked to relocate from one place of serving to another."

"This is not new. During Soviet times, we were always accused of being "agents" of the Vatican. Of course not all people in Crimea think we are spies, but there is a very active pro-Russian group there that does."

"We are grateful to God for His large grace and mercy to the people. At the same time we ask all people of good will to pray for the successful building of the church, because we know very well that when the Lord does not build a house, builders work in vain."

"It's big, it's the biggest country, but Russia, especially the Russian government, they are afraid of this change that has happened in Ukraine. They think this change is coming to Russia, (so) they are afraid of this situation and they have that aggression now...we need to pray and we need this peace for Ukraine and for Russia too."

"One of the missions of the underground priests was to encourage these people and to tell them that yes, we're suffering, but we're doing this for Christ. That's why the Church survived; people were humans, in all the best sense of the word."

"The ancient roots of the Church of Kyiv here, on the shores of the gray Dnieper, produce a new sprout. We have been killed and crucified many times, but our roots are alive."

"We do not recognize the annexation of Crimea, because the Church is outside of politics."

"In becoming a priest, you were agreeing to be a martyr."

"The ancient roots of the Church of Kyiv here, on the shores of the gray Dnieper, produce a new sprout. We have been killed and crucified many times, but our roots are alive."

"We, as Catholics, fully and in everything adhere to the instructions and positions of the Apostolic capital, including on the issue of the status of our church. Based on the fact that from the point of view of dignity, All Churches of their right are equal among themselves and have complete freedom with respect for the general and own right to form and develop the internal life of their church, except for the highest authority of the church, there is not a single competent forum or instance that would be able to change the canonical status of a particular Eastern Catholic Church of its right."

"Universities are now much more open to cooperation with the Catholic University since theology has been recognized as a subject, so there is a lot of interchange going on"

"The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church can serve as a model by which Orthodox Churches in Ukraine can remain eastern and yet have full communion with Rome."

"This massive explosion of theological formation is like a baby being nurtured by the benefactors of Aid to the Church in Need."