Once you label me you negate me.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
The question is not “To be or not to be,” it is what we should be until we are not.
A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we’ve got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
Hope is passion for what is possible.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God.
Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing.