Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.

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

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.