When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.

Community is like a big family.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.