Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God’s way is.
Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life.
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.
My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
A pastor who does not pray daily for his congregation is not a pastor.
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one’s life to a larger goal.
Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.
We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don’t; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.
If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.
In Jesus Christ we have been chosen from eternity, accepted in time, and united for eternity.
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.