In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

Only the suffering God can help.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.

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