Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.