We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Love alone is credible.

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

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

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.

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.