The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

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

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.