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

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.

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.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.