What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.