The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

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

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

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. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.... There is a truth which is of Satan. Its essence is that under the semblance of truth it denies everything that is real. It lives upon hatred of the real world which is created and loved by God.