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

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

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.

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.