Quotes about Author

The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent.

Nationalism calls forth the countermovement of internationalism.[84] Both are revolutionary in the same way. Prussia set the state over against them both. It wanted to be neither national nor international. In this its thought was more Western than that of the revolution.

God's word to me—new every day—in the infinite riches of interpretation.

Falsehood' is the destruction of, and hostility to, reality as it is in God; anyone who tells the truth cynically is lying.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church's most famous writers.