A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring

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

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.