Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

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.

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

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.