Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it