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

The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.