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.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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