The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.