Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

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

Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting

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

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.