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However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.