Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

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.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

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