Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.
We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.