The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.