Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.