“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.”

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers of my talent.

If I could not be in this free and wonderful country – I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else, mind you – Mexico is where I would live. I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

They danced in chains celebrating freedom.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?