The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

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.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.