In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

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.'

There is no condition for forgiveness.

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

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

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

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.