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

Only what is essential must be said.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

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

Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

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.

What we are in ourselves, and what we owe to others makes us a complete whole.