Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

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.

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.

There remains an experience of incomparable value.