“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.”

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

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.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Not to speak is to speak.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.