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

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split that opened up between theology and spirituality at the end of the Middle Ages.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

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.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.