Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.

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.

Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.

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

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

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