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

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 ….

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned..

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science)..

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be r….

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

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen.".

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemologic….

Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation….

Every institution is inherently demonic..

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself..

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

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 univer….

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the me….

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite..

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic clai….

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 ….

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaning….

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the mo….

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….

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason.