If there were no hell, I could not accept paradise.
— Divo Barsotti, quoted in Sandro Magister, Divo Barsotti, a Prophet for Today’s Church
I see the Church's progress beginning from here, from the return of holy Truth as the basis of every action. The peace promised by Christ, freedom, love are the goals that every man must attain, but he may reach them only after constructing the foundation of truth and the pillars of faith.
— Divo Barsotti, ibid.