The term ‘laity’ is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

What is offered to man’s apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called ‘the infinite qualitative distinction’ between time and eternity.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find – Who rather has sought and found us. Now.

Mozart’s music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all.

Religion possesses no solution of the problem of life; rather it makes of the problem a wholly insoluble enigma. Religion neither discovers the problem nor solves it: what it does is to disclose the truth that it cannot be solved.