Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality.

I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.