To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.