A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them and help them.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from “whole.

God must be very great to have created a world that leaves a mystery as to whether he created it.