There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.

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.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.