One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.