Two conditions render difficult this historic situation of mankind: It is full of tremendously deadly armament, and it has not progressed morally as much as it has scientifically and technically.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day toward the establishment of the ordered universe willed by God, with a more perfect form of justice among men.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize.