One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I’m tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see.
When you read God’s Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, “It is talking to me, and about me”.
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
The door to happiness opens outward.
Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
To love another person is to help them love God.
Confidence is the present tense of hope.
Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.