“The despiser of humanity despises what God has loved, despises the very form of God become human.”

 
“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.”

 
“God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross”

 
“Who stands fast? — the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?”

 
“What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. Will our inward power of resistance be strong enough, and our honesty with ourselves remoreseless enough, for us to find our way back to simplicity and straightforwardness?”

 
“Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.”

 
“There are things for which an uncompromising stand is worthwhile.”

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

 
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil… Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

 
“In New York they preach about virtually everything; only one thing is not addressed, or is addressed so rarely that I have as yet been unable to hear it, namely, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the cross, sin and forgiveness, death and life.”

 
“Our whole life is an Advent, a time of waiting for the ultimate, for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth, when all people will be brothers and sisters.”

“It is not through dying, but through Christ’s resurrection that a new and cleansing wind can blow through our present world. To live in the light of the resurrection – that is what Easter means.”

 
“Once again, Jesus calls those who follow him to share his passion. How can we convince the world by our preaching of the passion when we shrink from that passion in our own lives”

 
“…not from the heavy soil of the earth, but from the spirit’s choice and free desire, needing no oath of legal bond, is friend bestowed on friend”

 
“Jesus’ commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.”

 
“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace.”

 
“Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.”

 
“Jesus is no draughtsman of political blueprints, he is the one who vanquished evil through suffering. It looked as though evil had triumphed on the cross, but the real victory belonged to Jesus.”

 
“Civil courage, in fact, can grow only out of the free responsibility of free men”

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

 
“Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.”

 
“It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”

 
“One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.”