I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.