He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolat...
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Language... 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 alone.
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No."Biblical Religion an...
Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
The character of human life like the character of the human condition like the character of all life is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil the true and false the creative and d...
"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything perhaps la...
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.