“Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.”

A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

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 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.

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

Nothing can be known either of God or man until God has become man in Jesus Christ.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.