That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.