“Advent creates people, new people.”

“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.”

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent”

“A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.”

“Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.”

“Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.”

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”