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.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

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

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

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.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.