God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

A person who loves community tends to destroy it. But a person who loves people creates community wherever he goes.

To be sure, God shall call you, and us, only at the hour that God has chosen. Until that hour, which lies in God's hand alone, we shall be protected even in the greatest danger; and from our gratitude for such protection ever new readiness surely arises for the final call

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

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