"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"la vida sólo puede ser entendida mirando hacia atrás; aunque deba ser vivida mirando hacia adelante"
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."