The Catechism was not written to please you. It will not make life easy for you, because it demands of you a new life.

If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.

What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.