When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.