To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.