God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

The love for our enemies takes us along the way of the cross and into fellowship with the Crucified. The more we are driven along this road, the more certain is the victory of love over the enemy's hatred. For then it is not the disciple's own love, but the love of Jesus Christ alone, who for the sake of his enemies went to the cross and prayed for them as he hung there.