Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.