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

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

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.

The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.

The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.

The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the levers of power: it was won when the victims knelt down in the Colosseum and prayed in the name of Jesus for the Emperor.

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