But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

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.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

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

The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

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