Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.