Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny .
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.
All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight – the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.
There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.
Renunciation is submission to time.
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.