Through the Thou a person becomes I.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

The future stands in need of you in order to be born.

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.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.