As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.