Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

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

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

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.