Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

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

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.