They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)