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.

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

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

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.