We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.
Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.
It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.
The church has an unconditional obligation to the victims of any ordering society, even if they do not belong to the Christian community.
Only those who put tomorrow completely into God’s hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.
He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.
Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
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 first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian’s duty to bear.
God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.