We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

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.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

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

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.