There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

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