"[W]hen John Paul II exclaims at a public appearance, 'Praised be Jesus Christ', the phrase ceases to be a sort of a ritual banality and immediately becomes the enunciation of a discovery. This ability to give fresh life to words is the gift of poets, of great mystics and, naturally, of the apostles of Christ, who are the appointed reresentatives of the Word."
(André Frossard, Be Not Afraid!, p 9)
