Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

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

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.