Quotes from Emil Brunner

Hope... is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

Faith is obedience nothing else.