There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.