"The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever."

"The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all."

"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do."

"The good is the only thing that can be done for its own sake."

"The task is to understand myself, to understand what I am to do, to see what God really wants me to do."