It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?