The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.