There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.