The longest journey is the journey inward.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.