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.

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.

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.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

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

The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.