The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.