"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
"God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain."
"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny."
"The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."