There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone.

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.