“close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.”

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”

“Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.”

“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”

“Come! into the open, friend! admittedly only a little is gleaming todaydown and narrowly the heaven is enclosing us.Neither the mountains have yet risen of the forestthe peak as wished and empty the air is resting of singingIt’s dull today, the ways and lanes are slumbering and nearly it mayseem to me to be as in the leaden time. Nevertheless the wish succeeds, true believers don’t have doubts about Onehour and to the pleasure the day must furthermore be dedicated.”

“Near and hard to graspIs the God. But where danger isDeliverance also grows”

“We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.”