The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known anxiety or by sinking under it. He therefore who has leaned rightly to be in anxiety has learned the most important thing.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth.