Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity