All known existence points beyond itself.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".