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

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.