Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.

Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.