God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. . . . Our marriage must be a 'yes' to God's earth. It must strengthen our resolve to do and accomplish something on earth. I fear that Christians who venture to stand on earth on only one leg will stand in heaven on only one leg too.

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

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

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

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.