In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.