Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

Advent creates people, new people.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.