One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.