“Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real -- brutally honest, inescapably dependable.”

“My father regarded nationalism, including Zionism, as an evil and although he never attempted to convince me of his views, his logic, here, was inescapable.”

“When your father is alive, observe his will. When your father is dead observe his former actions. If, for three years [after the death of your father] you do not change from the ways of your father, you can be called a 'real son (xiào/hsiao).”

“The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.”

“While the Father is self-dependent, the son is completely dependent upon the Father.”

“Death came like a friend to restore thee
To those who had died before thee:
Father, mother,
Sister, brother—
There were none of these to mourn o’er thee.
But now that Death has found thee,
Thy kindred and friends are round thee;
In their rest they are laid
In the dark yew shade,
And cold sleep like their own has bound thee.”

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”

“Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.”

“I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father?”

“The flames roll'd on­-he would not go
Without his father's word;
That father, faint in death below,
His voice no longer heard.”