Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.

It is impossible to begin investigation without assumptions, for they all are founded on ideas and canons which have their basis in the rational and moral nature of man.

Revelation always supposes that man is able to receive impressions or thoughts or inclinations from another than this phenomenal world, and in a way other than that usually employed.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.

the doctrine of anamnesis: that all learning-that is, all learning of eternal truths-is really a remembering

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Behind every great story there's always another story.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.