When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

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.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.