The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as far as possible, to change something in the other, but also to let me be changed by him. At any event, I had no resistance, I put no resistance to it. I already began as a young man. I felt I have not the right to want to change another if I am not open to be changed by him as far as it is legitimate.

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.