Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

There is no condition for forgiveness.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of man's total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.