The idea of human rights holds up in the final analysis only if it is anchored in faith in the Creator God.

liberalism loses its own foundation when it leaves God out.

The multiplication of rights leads finally to the destruction of the concept of law and ends in a nihilistic “right” of man to deny himself—abortion, suicide, and the production of a human being as a thing become rights of man that at the same time deny him.

In this world of suffering, adoration has continued to rise up from the fiery furnaces of the crematories and not from the spectators of the horror.

Until then there was no religion with a claim to universality. Religion was an essential part of the identity of the particular society in question. Jesus’ commission does not directly signify the demand for a change in the structure of individual societies.

Only when man has internalized morality and in his innermost being reaches beyond himself are morality and freedom not antithetical but, rather, mutually dependent realities that build on one another.

The salvation of the world does not come, in the final analysis, from a transformation of the world or a political system that sets itself up as absolute and divine.

“Is it possible to pray honestly as long as we have done nothing to wipe the blood from those who have been beaten and to dry their tears?

The fusion of politics and religion in Islam, which necessarily restricts the freedom of other religions, and thus of Christians, too, is contrasted with the freedom of religion, which now to a certain extent also views the secular state as the correct form of government that allows room for the freedom of religion that Christians have claimed from