“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”

Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Man is what he believes.

If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren’t logical, you’re going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn’t logical. Love isn’t logical. Miracles aren’t logical.

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.