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.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

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

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.

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].