There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.