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

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

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.