One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

But to procrastinate and prevaricate simply because you're afraid of erring, when others - I mean our brethren in Germany - must make infinitely more difficult decisions every day, seems to me almost to run counter to love. To delay or fail to make decisions may be more sinful than to make wrong decisions out of faith and love.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

Only what is essential must be said.