We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians.

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.