It Would Be A Sad Thing If

If You Wish To Be Brothers, Drop Your Weapons.

All Human Activity Takes Place Within A Culture And Interacts With Culture.

Humankind, Which Discovers Its Capacity To Transform And In A Certain Sense Create The World Through Its Own Work, Forgets That This Is Always Based On God's Prior And Original Gift Of Things That Are. People Think That They Can Make Arbitrary Use Of The Earth, Subjecting It Without Restraint To Their Wills, As Though The Earth Did Not Have Its Own Requisites And A Prior God-given Purpose, Which Human Beings Can Indeed Develop But Must Not Betray.

God Passionately Desires And Ardently Yearns For Our Salvation... Nothing Is Greater Than This: That The Blood Of God Was Poured Out For Us.

Faith Leads Us Beyond Ourselves. It Leads Us Directly To God.