There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

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

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

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

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

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.