The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.