Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

To cook your hare you must first catch it.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.