Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.