The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

If you want my goodness to stay with you then serve your neighbour, for in him God comes to you himself; such a man sees in his neighbour the material and spiritual need he is called to meet.

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

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.