It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.