There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

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.