Grace strikes us when we are in great pain ....Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, 'You are accepted.'

Every institution is inherently demonic.

But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.

...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.