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.

In the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd. He only sees each individual

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.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.