Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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.

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

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.