“And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Boredom is the root of all evil.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

What labels me, negates me.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.