Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

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

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

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

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.