The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.