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.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

Advent creates people, new people.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.