The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

We are not New Testament Christians if we don't have a prayer life.

Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explication of Christ's activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn't teach that there was a redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics (sit venia verbo)21 would be an explication of Muhammad's teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ's activity.

But in Christendom we play at believing, play at being Christians; as far as possible from any breach with what we love, we remain at home, in the parlor, in the old grooves of finiteness — and then we go and twaddle with one another, or let the pastor twaddle to us, about all the promises which are found in the New Testament, that no one shall harm us, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against us, against the Church, etc.

When we are saved by grace, we do not leave behind the commandments of God. On the contrary, we find the power to keep them in love.