Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

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

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.