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.

There is no condition for forgiveness.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Love that cares, listens.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.