Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

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