The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, b….

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper ….

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to f….

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so….

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departu….

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human ….

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks fi….

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection..

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor..

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God..

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of co….

Love alone is credible..

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is..

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love..

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it..

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity..

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs..

When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate b….

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human be….

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably h….

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who G….