“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It is impossible to exist without passion.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

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.

What labels me, negates me.

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

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

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.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.

When I lost hope, hope came and found me, when I stopped believing in faith, faith believed in me.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

God isn’t looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.