All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.
The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
May God deny you peace but give you glory!
Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.
What is vanity but the longing to survive?
It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.
It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.