I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.