The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then let’s see something to prove it.