"The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day."

"Sanctification means that the Christians have been judged already, and that they are being preserved until the coming of Christ and are ever advancing towards it."

"Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian's life."

"If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it."

"The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words."

"Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes."

"Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us."

"Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself."

"Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility."

"Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?"

"A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent"

"One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons."

"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."

"Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom."

"The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind"

"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."

"No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy."

"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"

"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions."

"So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus."

"The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ."

"The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community."

"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."