Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

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.