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.
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.