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

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

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

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.