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.

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.

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

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.

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

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.