"There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it."

"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."

"Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters."

"[Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality."

"The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ"

"Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us."

"The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine."

"Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it."

"Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil."

"Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God."

"Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ."

"We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace."

"A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt."

"The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands."

"The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ."

"The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service."

"May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself."

"Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue."

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction."

"In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner."

"Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man."

"The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him."

"Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves."

"Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey…"