...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

The God that can be named is not God.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

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.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.