Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved, but rather God's presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to his Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.