"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

"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."

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

"Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you."

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

"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."

"Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him."

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

"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."

"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."

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

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

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."

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

"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

"Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ."

"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."

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

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

"Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer."

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

"Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ."

"Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued."

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

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

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

"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."

"Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor."

"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."

"How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe."

"The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them."

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children."

"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions."

"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free"

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

"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."

"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"

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

"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."

"One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons."

"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"

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

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

"Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself."