Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.