Occupation: Theologian Birth: May 10, 1886 Death: December 10, 1968
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor..
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace..
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind..
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world..
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way..
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me..
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well suppl….
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible..
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows….
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard..
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers..
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….
I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally..
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude..
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood..
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the ….
On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Ch….
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he a….
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who h….
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?.
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that..