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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

Ideology has consequences.

Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.