As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new - the holy estate of matrimony.

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.