Help must come from the outside, and it has come and comes daily and answers in the Word of Jesus Christ.

God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

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 is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.