The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.