“The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.”

I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

Passion makes every detail important.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Talk to women who’ve ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.