Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.