In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.

There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

Every call of Christ leads into death.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.

Only what is essential must be said.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.