Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.

At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.

The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points (in contemporary theology) do not in themselves indicate a deep final uncertainty, an alienation from the gospel.