We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

The church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the gospel if it stopped being . . . a defender of the rights of the poor . . . a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society . . . that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history.

When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.