The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
The first duty of love is to listen.
This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics...
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life...
Boredom is rage spread thin.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
For love ... is the blood of life the power of reunion in the separated.
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being a...
Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.