Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.