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

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

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.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

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