Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

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.

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

Where there are two people, there is untruth.