Angelo Scola

“The nuptial dimension proper to every form of love is the point of departure for addressing pastoral challenges regarding marriage and the family.”

“[The longing for truth] respects the freedom of all, even of the person who calls himself agnostic, indifferent, or atheist.”

“The council, according to Wojtyła, should elaborate a firmly-grounded truth about man that testifies to how the religious aptitude is the fullness of man’s rationality, his fulfillment, and by no means his alienation.”

"Love is one. Eros and agape cannot be set against each other."

“The nuptial mystery offers a systematic perspective—but one never taken for granted or possessed—for the intellectus fidei .”

"If, in fact, tradition is the gift of the hypothesis of truth in the very person of the educator, this educator cannot but be a witness ."

"Fundamentalism . . . fails to see that . . . each man, and only he, decides about his humanity, because the foundation itself chooses the act of human freedom as the locus of its donation."

"Reason and will/freedom are . . . involved in the origin of knowledge itself, because being becomes manifest only in giving itself. Judgment and justice are therefore a 'hendiadys' for 'truth,' and faith is the radical critical form of reason; there can be no extrinsic relation between them."

"'[M]ystery' does not designate the Unknown, but rather the One who communicates himself in a real way, remaining veiled in order to involve human freedom in a dynamic of fruitful love."

"Ultimately, then, the free person is the one who is a son, who recognizes God's paternity as a grace."

"A culture that does not accept the revelation of the Trinitarian God ultimately renders itself incapable of understanding sexual difference in a positive sense."