There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

A saint has to be a misfit. A person who embodies what his culture considers typical or normal cannot be exemplary.

Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.