Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can raise the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.