The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self.

Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.