"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."

"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."

"The greatest misfortune of all is that people are not willing to live in the present, but are always looking forward to the future."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"If I am to love God, I must be able to recognize him; if I am to recognize him, then he must be visible; if he is visible, then he is not God."