The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.