With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

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

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.

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

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.