Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.