Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

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

The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

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.

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

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason