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

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

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.'

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

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.

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