The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

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

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling. The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live in Christ, to exist for others.

The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.