'Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple surrender and obedience -- not interpreting or applying it, but doing and obeying it. That is the only way to hear his words. He does not mean us to discuss it as an ideal. He realy means for us to get on with it.'

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

'Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.'

Sir John Templeton

'A man who was entirely careless of spiritual affairs died and went to hell. And he was much missed on earth by his old friends. His business agent went down to the gates of hell to see if there was any chance of bringing him back. But through he pleaded for the gates to be opened, the iron bars never yielded. His priest also went and argued: "He was not really a bad fellow, given time he would have matured. Let him out, please!" The gates remained stubbornly shut against all these voices. Finally, his mother came; she did not beg his release. Quietly, and with a strange catch in her voice, she said to Satan: "Let me in." Immediately the great doors swung open upon their hinges. For love goes down through the gates of hell and there redeems the dead.'

G.K. Chesterton

'Only after discovering Jesus do we realize "this is what I was waiting for ..."'

Pope Benedict XVI

'Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.'

Albert Einstein
Time Magazine, Dec. 23, 1940