[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.

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

Fear is the absence of faith.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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.