Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

One should be an enigma not just to others but to oneself too. I study myself. When I'm tired of that I light a cigar to pass the time, and think: God only knows what the good Lord really meant with me, or what He meant to make of me.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.

The God that can be named is not God.