Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Fear is the absence of faith.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

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

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

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.