Illuminate the Earth

"Theology will not try to illuminate the heavens with a searchlight mounted on earth, but will try to see and understand earth in the light of heaven.” 

          - Karl Barth 'The First Commandment as an Axiom of Theology" p. 74

Don't Take Your Unbelief Too Seriously

"Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. Only faith is to be taken seriously; and if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed, that suffices, for the devil has lost his game."

- Karl Barth, quoted in Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton

Hat Tip: The Children Shall Enter - Mike Potemra - The Corner on National Review Online