Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

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 act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

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