“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.”

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

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.

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.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Your thoughts are as free as any bird.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?