“A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.”

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.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

The world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Not to speak is to speak.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others, not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

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.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.