To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.

The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

Live in the kingdom of God in such a way that it provokes questions for which the gospel is the answer.

It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any world view except a world view of which it is the basis.