Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.