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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are."