Quotes – Bishop Ketteler

  “Oh that we should return to a life of love, and embrace all who need us in that love.”  

“Let us, rich and poor, love our neighbor as ourselves but for one day, and the face of the earth will be renewed.”

  “I love the age in which we dwell with its mighty wrestling with sublime ideas, however far we are from attaining them.”

    “Nothing depends on human strength alone, as long as we do not hinder the power of God, working in us and through us.”  

    “If we could only glimpse into the inner substance and spirit of the situations that come up in our lives, situations that often seem so insignificant and accidental, we might often recognize the all-loving will of God, his boundless mercy, hidden and concealed under these inconspicuous forms…”