"The most tremendous energy of which the world is capable is the spiritual energy of a man who is in despair."

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."

"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. Pleasure disappoints,…"

"The absolute paradox is that God, the eternal, has entered into time, the temporal, and has become man."

"The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever."