…’joy’ in Phillippians is a defiant ‘Nevertheless!’ that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians’ anxiety…
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.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
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.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.
Theology must have the character of a living procession.
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 theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.