The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

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

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.