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

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

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

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

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

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.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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.

There is no love which does not become help.

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

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 alone.

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

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

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.

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 awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

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

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe.

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

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

Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life.

Being human means asking the questions of ones own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And conversely being human means receiving answers to the questions of ones own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

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

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.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions

Forgiving presupposes remembering.

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 vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

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

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.