Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.