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

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

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

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.