Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They laugh at the fact that volume follows volume, and each is thicker than the previous ones. As they laugh, they say to one another, ‘Look! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!’—and they laugh about the persons who write so much about Karl Barth instead of writing about the things he is trying to write about. Truly, the angels laugh.

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.