Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient a...
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to his call: First obey, do the external works, let go of what binds you, give up what is separating you...
Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in th...
Is the invisible presence of the Christian fellowship a reality and a help to the individual? Is the Word of God close to him as a comfort and a strength? Or does he misuse his aloneness contrary to t...
The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together...
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us.
Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but on...
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their personal intentions may be ever s...
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack o...
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.