But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

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

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.