We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?