Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

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

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

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