Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

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

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.