“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

Dedication, later published as "A Prayer in Time of War"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)
Context: p>Grant us the single heart once more
That mocks no sacred thing,
The Sword of Truth our fathers wore
When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell
Our deep unspoken prayer;
For, while our souls in darkness dwell,
We know that Thou art there.</p

Dedication, later published as "A Prayer in Time of War"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)

In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica

2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Context: God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.

"Flow my tears", line 21, The Second Book of Songs.

Source: A Voice in the Wind

The Castle in the Air.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: Alone (1938), CH. 7