He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.