“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.”

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.

In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind.

The task of pastoral ministry, above all else, is to arrange contingencies for an encounter with the divine.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

Strict exercise of self-control is an essential feature of the Christian’s life.

It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

I’m just a very creative and outgoing person and I love being around people and being around music. It just gives me energy.

Sometimes I’ll have a whole song done without having a beat – I’ll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.

Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.

Just out here workin’ hard and doin’ what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Don’t look down to the world, look up to the creator.