Sublime

These three emphasize the vital importance of a deep awareness of need.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

Belief in the resurrection is not the ‘solution’ of the problem of death. God’s ‘beyond’ is not the beyond of our cognitive faculties. The transcendence of epistemological theory has nothing to do with the transcendence of God. God is beyond in the midst of our life. The church stands, not at the boundaries where human powers give out, but in the m

God is no timeless fate, but that he waits for and answers sincere prayers and responsible actions.

When we forget what is due to ourselves and to others, when the feeling for human quality and the power to exercise reserve cease to exist, chaos is at the door.

Because they daily hunger and thirst for righteousness, they long for the redeeming Word again and again. It can only come from the outside. In themselves they are destitute and dead.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who, in a letter from prison, said to a young couple on their wedding day, “Today, you are young and very much in love and you think that your love can sustain your marriage. It can’t. Let your marriage sustain your love.”

Only in Jesus Christ are we one; only through him are we bound together. He remains the one and only mediator throughout eternity.