I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

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.

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

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

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.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

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