What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
To be a child means to owe one’s existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.
Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age’s most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
God defines himself as “I am who I am”, which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.