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.

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

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

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.