What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.