Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.

Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.