A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

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.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.