All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

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.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.