He [jesus Christ] Is The Master Of

The Angels Laugh At Old Karl. They Laugh At Him Because He Tries To Grasp The Truth About God In A Book Of Dogmatics. They Laugh At The Fact That Volume Follows Volume, And Each Is Thicker Than The Previous Ones. As They Laugh, They Say To One Another, ‘look! Here He Comes Now With His Little Pushcart Full Of Volumes Of The Dogmatics!’—and They Laugh About The Persons Who Write So Much About Karl Barth Instead Of Writing About The Things He Is Trying To Write About. Truly, The Angels Laugh.

When The Frontier Between God And Man, The Last Inexorable Barrier And Obstacle, Is Not Closed, The Barrier Between What Is Normal And What Is Perverse Is Opened.

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.

Grace And Gratitude Belong Together Like Heaven And Earth. Gratitude Evokes Grace Like The Voice And Echo. Gratitude Follows Grace As Thunder Follows Lightning.

We Must Hold The Bible In One Hand And The Newspaper In The Other.