No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of heaven, no one has heard about his realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existenceDeath is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

In the first place, the church can ask the state whether its actions are legitimate and in accordance with its character as state, i.e., it can throw the state back on its responsibilities. Secondly, it can aid the victims of state action. The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering of society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community. The third possibility is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.