Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.