Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

The God that can be named is not God.

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

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

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.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.