One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.