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.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.