We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.