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.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

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

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.