The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

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

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.