Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts... for they have already been given to another.

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.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.