Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.