The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

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.