Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.

Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.