The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.

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

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.