"Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy."
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
"Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth."
"Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth."
"Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic."
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."