Occupation: Writer Birth: September 30, 1929 Death: April 27, 2003
To be content with the world as it is is to be dead..
This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious..
Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes..
A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently..
God has no other hands than ours..
A competitive society is a society of envy..
For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against G….
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering ….
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity..
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer..
Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper..
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities..
To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names..
Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in whi….
God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comfo….
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here,….
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right ….
All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil the….
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive..
Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve..
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern t….