Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
The first duty of love is to listen.
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware.
The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is “ambiguity”: the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.