Anyone who wants to serve peace must serve life. He must therefore resist war, because this is the deadliest form of discord.

To know Jesus does not simply mean learning the facts of christological dogma. It means learning to know him in the praxis of discipleship.

God does not save his creation for heaven; he renews the earth.

Love your enemies – the suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power.

Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goal of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

True peace with God in the community of his people brings discontent with the world of lies.

Anyone who gazes only at the enemy becomes an enemy himself.

It (faith) means seeking community with the human Christ in every situation in life, and in every situation experiencing his own history.

Thus, faith believes God to be true, hope awaits the time when this truth shall be manifested.

The solidarity of creative love heals the wounds of a segregated society.

Anxiety is the reason why many young people are not just afraid of death, but are already afraid of life.

What anxiety and hope actually have in common is a sense of what is possible. In anxiety we anticipate possible danger. In hope we anticipate possible deliverance.

But there is a third form of suffering: active suffering - the voluntary laying oneself open to another and allowing oneself to be intimately affected by him; that is to say, the suffering of passionate love.

We shall again become open people, creatively alive, without reservations and without securities. We can give ourselves entirely and without division, just as he gave himself entirely to us.

God doesn't want copies; he wants originals.

The one-sided orientation toward accomplishment and success makes us unjust and inhuman in our dealings with others. We exclude the sick, the handicapped, the unaccomplished, and the unsuccessful from public life.

Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself.

Normally we look upwards, to some above us, when we are impressed by his glory. But in the case of Jesus we have to look *downwards*.