Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.