Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.