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

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.