Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.