After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

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

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.