Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Faith is hidden household capital.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.