"I will give you shepherds after my own heart" (Jer. 3:15).

In these words, from the prophet Jeremiah, God promises his people that he will never leave them without shepherds to gather them together and guide them: "I will set shepherds over them [my sheep] who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed (Jer. 23.4).

- John Paul II in Apostolic Exhortation "PASTORES DABO VOBIS"