The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things.