Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.