It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.

If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

First they went after the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist. Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up, because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics, and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they went after me, and there was no one left to stand up for me.

What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.

Don't let your life wait for other people.