The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

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

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.