The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

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

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

Fear is the absence of faith.

I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.