The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary