Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.