Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude..

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned..

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself..

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful..

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness ….

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority..

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human.

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more c….

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt..

Love that cares, listens..

Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable..

Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradox….

There is no condition for forgiveness..

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning..

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt..

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature..

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its a….

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surr….

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten..

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation..

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the ….