A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

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.