To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.