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"The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt."
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"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"

"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."

"Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?"
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"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."

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."

"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."
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