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

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

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

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

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