On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

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.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity