"When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."
"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"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."
"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."