If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Faith is a gift of God.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.