Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies