There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

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

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.