Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.