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

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.