It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.
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.
A righteous person is one who lives for the next generation.
The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one’s life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.
We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.
Only what is essential must be said.
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.
God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.
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.
Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.
As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.