Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

There is no love which does not become help.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

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