Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

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.'

May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself.

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

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.