Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion.

If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

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

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.