Stories and poems are a unique key to the world and literally condensed reality. They are both a challenge and an invitation, a question and an inspiration, allowing one to enter the familiar house of theology through different doors. Few understand their inspiring power better than Hubertus Halbfas. He has not only significantly shaped religious education in recent decades through his grand designs but has also found an unspent language in works of visual art as well as in the words of poetry and the wisdom of the world, which was not primarily derived from doctrine but rather eavesdropped from life. Over the decades, a treasure has emerged, which he now opens to his readers in three representative volumes enriched with contemporary print graphics and photography. Anyone seeking inspiration will find surprising access to seemingly well-known concepts.