Love Alone Is Credible.

Even If A Unity Of Faith Is Not Possible, A Unity Of Love Is.

Faith Means The Fundamental Response To The Love That Has Offered Itself Up For Me. It Thus Becomes Clear That Faith Is Ordered Primarily To The Inconceivability Of God's Love, Which Surpasses Us And Anticipates Us. Love Alone Is Credible; Nothing Else Can Be Believed, And Nothing Else Ought To Be Believed. This Is The Achievement, The 'work' Of Faith: To Recognize This Absolute Prius, Which Nothing Else Can Surpass; To Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Love, Absolute Love, And That There Is Nothing Higher Or Greater Than It.

Without A Doubt, At The Center Of The New Testament There Stands The Cross, Which Receives Its Interpretation From The Resurrection.

The First Attempt At A Response: There Must Have Been A Fall, A Decline, And The Road To Salvation Can Only Be The Return Of The Sensible Finite Into The Intelligible Infinite.

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It. Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance. We Can Be Sure That Whoever Sneers At Her Name As If She Were The Ornament Of A Bourgeois Past -- Whether He Admits It Or Not -- Can No Longer Pray And Soon Will No Longer Be Able To Love.