Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?