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.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

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

A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

God has no other hands than ours.

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their life through motherhood, by caring for their husbands and serving them. The fixed role pattern of one particular economic and family order is transformed into an order willed by God and given by creation. With a methodologically similar logic, slaves were understood as those elected by God to serve the whites.