It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.