A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.

Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.