The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

The cross is suffering with Christ.

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

Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.