The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.