I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?
The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works.
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.
God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
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.
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.
Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.