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

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

You can only learn what obedience is by obeying

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

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

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. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.