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.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

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.

God comes into the very midst of evil and of death, and judges the evil in us and in the world. And by judging us, he cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with his grace and love. He makes us happy as only children can be happy.

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