“Curiouser and curiouser!”

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘(...) When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

But now, Lord, what do I look for? My hope is in you.

The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we stand continually. Before God and with God we live without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us. (…) Here is the decisive difference between Christianity and all religions. Man’s religiosity makes him look in his distress to the power of God in the world: God is the deus ex machina. The Bible directs man to God’s powerlessness and suffering; only the suffering God can help.

In general my position has developed theologically to the right and politically to the left of modern liberal Protestantism.

Because of his measureless love, He became what we are in order to enable us to become what He is.

The problem is not changing people’s consciousnesses—or what’s in their heads—but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth.

Now it is your task to be Christian theologians in your new, different and special situation. You truly do not need to become “Europoean, Western men,” not to mention “Barthians,” in order to be good Christians and theologians. You may feel free to be South East Asian Christians.

The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we continually stand. Before God and with God we live without God.

As theologians we are obliged to speak of God. But we are men [and women], and, as such, we cannot speak of God. We must be aware both of our obligation and our inability, and thus give glory to God. This is what oppresses us. Compared to this everything else is child’s play.

Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like a sunless garden where flowers are dead.

Man cannot receive an answer to a question he has not asked.

God is not only greater than our mind, he is also greater than our heart, and just as we have to avoid the temptation of adapting God to our small concept we also have to avoid adapting him to our small feelings.