Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.