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

Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

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

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

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

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

When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.