The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

Saints cannot exist without a community

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.