It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

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.

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.