Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.