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. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.