The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

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.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.