Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.