Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.