Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

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

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

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

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.