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.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

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

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

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.