Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.