Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

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.

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.