Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Being human means asking the questions of one’s own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one’s own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.
All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.
Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Forgiving presupposes remembering.
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
Love that cares, listens.
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the separated.
Our spirituality is the ground of our being.
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason.