It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.