The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.