What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self