Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

One of our deepest needs is to be at home.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity maybe even for their beauty.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.