The first duty of love is to listen.

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'