The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

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.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.