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.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

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

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