The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.