A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.