Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

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).

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

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.