Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.