Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

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

The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.

If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.