The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony.