All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

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.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

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