Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

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

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.