Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

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

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.

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

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

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