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

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

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.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.