The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of everything, even the worst... I believe that even our mistakes and wrongdoing are not fruitless.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting