Faith Is Never Identical With

I Had To Show That The Bible Dealt With An Encounter Between God And Man. I Thought Only Of The Apartness Of God. What I Had To Learn After That Was The Togetherness Of Man And God - A Union Of Two Totally Different Kinds Of Beings.

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.

The Theologian Who Labors Without Joy Is Not A Theologian At All. Sulky Faces, Morose Thoughts And Boring Ways Of Speaking Are Intolerable In This Field.

Take Your Bible And Take Your Newspaper, And Read Both. But Interpret Newspapers From Your Bible.

Humor Is The Opposite Of All Self-admiration And Self-praise.