The cross is suffering with Christ.

When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.