The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.