The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.