Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains ….

Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essentia….

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth..

Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool o….

There is no condition for forgiveness..

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….

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….

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

He who knows about depth knows about God..

Forgiving presupposes remembering..

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a wh….

Fear is the absence of faith..

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

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge..

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….

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority….

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is t….

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite..

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment..

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

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny..