Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.