Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.