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.
When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people.
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
All are called to be what in the reality of God they already are.
The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies.