But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

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

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

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

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

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.