It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.

A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.