The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
A peaceful heart sees the world with love.
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them.
In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality, and of hope.
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community.
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Being a Christian is less about carefully avoiding sin than about positively and actively doing the good.
The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
The first duty of a Christian is to listen.
There remains an experience of incomparable value… to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of victims.
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.
The cross is not a martyrdom or a heroism taken for Christ’s sake, but a realization of the only true recompense which can be given for our transgressions against our fellow men.
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.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.
It is not our love that sustains the world, but God’s love.
The limitation of Christian life comes from not having prayed enough.
Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously doing God’s will.
Jesus becomes the mediator through his own messiness.
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things, the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger.
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak.
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality, and hope.
A peaceful heart sees the world with love.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.
There remains an experience of incomparable value… to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of victims.
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.
The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality, and hope.
One act of obedience is worth a hundred sermons.
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community.
The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
The first duty of a Christian is to listen.
There remains an experience of incomparable value… to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of victims.
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