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.

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

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

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

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

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.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.