While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

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

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world