God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

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

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.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.