Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.