In the life of the individual when love awakens it is older than everything else, because when it exists it seems as if it has existed for a long time; it presupposes itself back into the distant past until all searching ends in the inexplicable origin.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

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

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.