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

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

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

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.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

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