Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

We must be governed by the force of law, not by the law of force.

It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.

Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.