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

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.

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

When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose

And we will lie down on the ground and have conversations with the grasses and the flowers.

God won’t give you more than you can handle.’” Holiday chuckled. “And we just wish He didn’t trust us so much, right?

I don't believe that everybody is out of some kind of cookie cutter, so the thing that protects me is always being level with myself, even to myself.

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.

1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.