There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, ‘He leads the way, keep close to Him.’
But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.
Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.
It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!
Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.
It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.