God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.