Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature.

The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.