Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.