The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.