The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
Only the suffering God can help.
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 tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.
I have the sense that if I push too hard or too far into memory I’ll come apart.
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone