Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.