Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

To be content with the world as it is is to be dead.

Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

God has no other hands than ours.