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Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.
Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice (1911)
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987)
The relation between us and God, between this world and His world presses for recognition, but the line of intersection is not self-evident.
The Epistle to the Romans (1918)
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)
Men have never been good, they are not good, they never will be good.
We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Eternity is here (in the stable at Bethlehem and on the cross of Calvary) in time.
The Knowledge of God and the Service of God (1939)
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
An Introduction to Protestant Theology (1982)
I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment.
Witness to an Ancient Truth (1962)
He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.
Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
God in the highest, in the sense of the Christian Confession, means He who from on high has condescended to us, has come to us, has become ours.
Dogmatics in Outline (1949)
He is the One who stands above us and also above our highest and deepest feelings, strivings, intuitions, above the products, even the most sublime, of the human spirit.
Dogmatics in Outline (1949)
To look to Him is to see Him at the very centre, to see Him and the history which, accomplished in Him, heals everything and all things, as the mystery, reality, origin and goal of the whole world, all men, all life.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.
Witness to an Ancient Truth (1962)