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.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

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

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.