If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song..

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

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

Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in ….

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of go….

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society..

Love that cares, listens..

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy..

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

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being..

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the ….

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity..

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free..

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being..

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God..

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or in….

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

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers..

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

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..

There is no condition for forgiveness..