The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.