The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
There is no love which does not become help.
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
Wine is like the incarnation – it is both divine and human.
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements, as well as one’s deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: “The first duty of love is to listen.”
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
There is no condition for forgiveness.
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.