It pains me to speak of God in the third person.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.