I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
