I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

Life is so short that no sooner have you heard the whistle to “get set & go”, you have reached the finish line nearing the death-toll.

Large families are communities unto their own.

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

Our love will rule in this kingdom we have made.

Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.