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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
― Karl Barth

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
― Karl Barth

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Dilemmas always are a source of polarization. We quickly move over to simplistic either-or’s … in which the fulness of truth is torn apart. And in the atmosphere of false polarities, we often stop listening to each other’s words. With this, irritation and pique poison the theological discussion. But it is striking and, at the same time, reassuring that the clear intent of the gospel comes through even in the midst of theological polarization, especially when all the parties intend to be faithful to the gospel.”
― G C Berkouwer

“In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.”
― G C Berkouwer

“Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.”
― G C Berkouwer

“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way”
― Karl Barth

“Faith is decisively determined by the object of faith, namely, God and His Word. This does not ... imply that Scripture ... derives its authority from the believer's faith: this idea is already rendered untenable by the very nature of faith, which rests on and trusts in the Word of God.”
― G.C. Berkouwer

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“Salvation ... has its eternal foundation in the love of God.”
― G C Berkouwer

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Moses gave us a law, but we received the true faith through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God or will ever see God, only his son, who is in the Father, has shown us the path of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief