Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

The Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged, for by himself he cannot help himself without belying the truth.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.