Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

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

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

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