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

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

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

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.