This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.