Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.
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.
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever so honest, earnest, and sacrificial.
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.
Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.
Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.
It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.
Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.