Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.
God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.
I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.
That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.
It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him.
One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.