Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

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

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

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

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

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

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

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

You are what you believe

SHUT UP!...PADLE!

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

The evening news made her wonder if God was dead; the morning sun made her believe He wasn't.

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

Actions have consequences.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

I try my hardest not to read reviews.