The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.