Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he will answer "Nothing, Lord." How could he when he knows that despite hunger and nakedness, persecution and danger, the Lord is always at his side?

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.