If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

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

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.