There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

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

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

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.

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.

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