At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

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

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.

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.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.