The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

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

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.