Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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

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

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.