The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.