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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
Faith is never identical with piety.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
I haven't even read everything I wrote.
The Devil may also make use of morality.
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'
I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.
He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.
One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.