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.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

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

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.