Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.