Politics are not the task of a Christian.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.