The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
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.
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.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
