But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

Do something good and someone might imitate it.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.