Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

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

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

The first duty of love is to listen.

In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.