What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

So long as we stand under the Law, we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.

The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an I, to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.