The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.