No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."