We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

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.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest upon him, finds his burden easy, and under its gentle pressure receives the power to persevere in the right way. The command of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, for those who try to resist it. But for those who willingly submit, the yoke is easy, and the burden is light.