Exegesis, Exegesis, And Yet More Exegesis!

Faith Is Not An Art. Faith Is Not An Achievement. Faith Is Not A Good Work Of Which Some May Boast While Others Can Excuse Themselves With A Shrug Of The Shoulders For Not Being Capable Of It. It Is A Decisive Insight Of Faith Itself That All Of Us Are Incapable Of Faith In Ourselves, Whether We Think Of Its Preparation, Beginning, Continuation, Or Completion.

It May Be That When The Angels Go About Their Task Praising God, They Play Only Bach. I Am Sure, However, That When They Are Together En Famille They Play Mozart.

What Expressions We Used - In Part Taken Over And In Part Newly Invented! Above All, The Famous 'wholly Other' Breaking In Upon Us 'perpendicularly From Above,' The Not Less Famous 'infinite Qualitative Distinction' Between God And Man, The Vacuum, The Mathematical Point, And The Tangent In Which Alone They Must Meet.

The Person Who Knows Only His Side Of The Argument Knows Little Of That.

That The Zeal For God's Honor Is Also A Dangerous Passion, That The Christian Must Bring With Him The Courage To Swim Against The Tide Instead Of With It... Accept A Good Deal Of Loneliness, Will Perhaps Be Nowhere So Clear And Palpable As In The Church, Where He Would So Much Like Things To Be Different. Yet He Cannot And He Will Not Refuse To Take This Risk And Pay This Price... He Belongs Where The Reformation Of The Church Is Underway Or Will Again Be Underway.