What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.