God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

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