Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.