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 confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

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?

God's grace is not limited by any ecclesiastical barriers.

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

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.