Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.