If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

And we simply cannot be constant with the fact that God’s cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be “unsuccessful”; and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm.