God is not free from human beings but for them.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.