The annals are replete with the failures of famous figures.

There is not only a physical deafness which largely cuts people off from social life; there is also a "hardness of hearing" where God is concerned.

That loveless slum you see in yourself is quite truly you — I won't pretend otherwise, but it is you seen in the light of God.

It is no accident that faith in God flows from a "head sore-wounded," from a crucified man, and that atheism has Epicurus for father and originates in the world of the satisfied onlooker.

If we wish to receive the strength of God, we must despoil ourselves of our own strength.

When Christians boldly hold up an image of the humiliated, tortured Jesus to the world, they are saying: "We are not afraid."

Devout and self-denying people go straight against self always, and are more quickly and easily transformed — are regenerated in a blessed manner.

In the forty days of the preparation for Easter, we endeavour to get away from the heathenism that weighs us down, that is always driving us away from God, and we set off toward him once again.

The great edifices of classical cultures are also morally edifying by their anonymity.

Rest is not idleness.