Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

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

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.