12 Quotes by Romano Guardini

To know Christ entails accepting his will as norm. When we feel this we draw back, startled for it means the cross. The it is better to say honestly: “I can’t yet,” than to mouth pious phrases. Slow there with the large words “self-suffender,” and “sacrifice.” It is better to admit our weakness and ask him to teach us strength.

We are the archenemy of our own salvation, and the Shepherd must fight first of all with us – for us.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Essentially a soldier, the Christian is always on the lookout.

For the greatest things are accomplished in silence – not in the clamor and display of superficial eventfulness, but in the deep clarity of inner vision; in the almost imperceptible start of decision, in quiet overcoming and hidden sacrifice.

Asceticism means that a man resolves to live as a man.

The Transfiguration is the summer lightning of the coming Resurrection. Also of our own resurrection, for we too are to partake.