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

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

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

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

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.