"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
"Without God all things are permitted."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
"If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth."