The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

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

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!