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

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

Every institution is inherently demonic.

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.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.