You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.