The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

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.

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