The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

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

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.