Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

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.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

…only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny

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....

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...

The first duty of love is to listen.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable

You are accepted.

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...

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

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 idolatrous.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

…sin is separation.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

There is no love which does not become help.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Boredom is rage spread thin

The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements – as well as one’s deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

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

Faith…is a concern of the whole person; it is the most personal concern, and that which determines all others. …it is not something which we can produce by the will to believe, but that by...

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being

It is most important for the practice of the Christian ministry, especially in its missionary activities toward those both within and without the Christian culture, to consider pagans, humanists, and Jews as members of the...

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t’were perjury to love thee now!

Wine is like the incarnation–it is both divine and human

The Christ is God-for-us! But God is not only for us, [God] is for everything created.

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.”...

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Wine is like the incarnation-it is both divine and human.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

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.

Christianity sees in the picture of Jesus as the Christ a human life in which all forms of anxiety are present but in which all forms of despair are absent.

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...

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

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