A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

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.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.