The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

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

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

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

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.