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

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

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.

One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

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

The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.