Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

Not to decide is to decide.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

If you don’t act out of ‘Inspiration’, ‘Desperation’ will make you act!

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?

If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.