“As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”

“Formal proofs, where there is deliberately no meaning, can convince only formalists, and of the results they themselves seem to deny any meaning. Is that to be the mathematics we are to use to understand the world we live in?”

“The most important thing is that we would like people to reach some kind of mutual understanding, so that these huge mixed nationalities, religions, social order, finally understand each other, if possible ... And then everything would fall into place, and there are no more desires would not be.”

“She had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

“When you speak in His presence about your past sins, He does not even understand your language. Only the present and the future have any interest for Him... I have committed crimes and have blood on my conscience. I told Jesus about it again and again. But because He had long ago washed all this away, there was no possibility of communication between us. He did not understand what I was talking about.”

“The victory over prejudice is possible through our worldview freedom from its power.”

“It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view.”

“If the common soldiers of each army could just get together by a river bank and talk things over calmly, no war could possibly last as long as a week.”