The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

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