Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.