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.

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.