The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for every man and woman. ... It is our responsibility to pass on what, by God's grace, we ourselves have received.

Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.

[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.