If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.