Godfried Danneels

"Lamps (inculturation) are the people from all epochs who give them to us day after day. Let us also be grateful for our period: everything is not so negative."

"I remain convinced that gathering a small council around the pope every so often, Church figures from different countries, whose members might change every two or three years maybe, would be of help to him, so he can be sure of knowing the temperature of the Church. The Curia cant feel and register that temperature, its not its task."

"God is good and perfect, but I know Im not, and its useless trying."