A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.