Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

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

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.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.