We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them