Christian faith does not involve repressing one's anxiety in order to appear strong. On the contrary, it means recognizing one's weakness, accepting the inward truth about oneself, confessing one's anxiety, and still to believe, that is to say that the Christian puts his trust not in his own strength, but in the grace of God.

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.

We do not posses God. We find him periodically.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

There are two things we cannot do alone. One is to be married and the other is to be a Christian.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.