If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.