"The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about."
"The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God."
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
"For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought"
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."