Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!
A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
