The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this fi… - Karl Barth

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God — before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

When the angels praise God in Heaven I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.