This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.