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.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.