In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

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

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

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.

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.