The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Advent creates people, new people.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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.