God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life.
So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.
When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God’s word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
Only the suffering God can help.
Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one’s heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.
Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words...
What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.
The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.
A home is a kingdom of it’s own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.