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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Love that cares, listens.
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Fear is the absence of faith.
Forgiving presupposes remembering.
The first duty of love is to listen.
There is no condition for forgiveness.
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Every institution is inherently demonic.
He who knows about depth knows about God.
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
There is no love which does not become help.
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.
The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
Spirit is the presence of what concerns us ultimately, the ground of our being and meaning.
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.
