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."

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

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

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

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

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.