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.

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.

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 Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.