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

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.

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.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

He who has wisdom, out of his mouth comes knowledge.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

... for the modern soul, for which it is mere child's play to bridge oceans and continents, there is nothing so impossible as to find the contact with the souls dwelling just around the corner.