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

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

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