How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

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.

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

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

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