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

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.