The Koran Is A Book Of Peace,

I See The Church As A Field Hospital After Battle. It Is Useless To Ask A Seriously Injured Person If He Has High Cholesterol And About The Level Of His Blood Sugars. You Have To Heal His Wounds. Then We Can Talk About Everything Else.

To Love God And Neighbor Is Not Something Abstract, But Profoundly Concrete: It Means Seeing In Every Person And Face Of The Lord To Be Served, To Serve Him Concretely. And You Are, Dear Brothers And Sisters, In The Face Of Jesus.

The First Setting In Which Faith Enlightens The Human City Is The Family.

Only Trust In God Can Transform Doubts Into Certainty, Evil Into Good, Night Into Radiant Dawn.

The Great Danger In Today's World, Pervaded As It Is By Consumerism, Is The Desolation And Anguish Born Of A Complacent Yet Covetous Heart, The Feverish Pursuit Of Frivolous Pleasures, And A Blunted Conscience. Whenever Our Interior Life Becomes Caught Up In Its Own Interests And Concerns, There Is No Longer Room For Others, No Place For The Poor.