No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking him.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

Be that self which one truly is.