“It was like struggling with some crushing physical task, something which one had the right to refuse and which one was nevertheless neurotically anxious to accomplish.”

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”

“Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended. ”

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.”

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.”

“Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens to decisions. One man is curious about another, every one is undecided, and their way of escape is to say that some one must come who will do something--and then they will bet on him.”