“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”

“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.”

“I am part of the part that once was everything,Part of the darkness which gave birth to light…Mephistopheles, from Faust.”

“Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”

“There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.”

“Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.”

“Father! Whom I do not know! Father! who filled all my soul and who has now turned His countenance away from me! Call me to You! Be silent no longer! Your silence will not stay this thirsting soul—and could a person, a father, be angry whose son, unexpectedly returning, threw himself on his neck and cried: Father! I have come back! Don’t be angry that I am breaking off the travels that you meant for me to endure longer. The world is everywhere the same, in effort and work, reward and joy, but what is that to me? I am only happy where you are, and it is before your countenance that I want to suffer and enjoy.—And You, dear heavenly Father, would turn him away from You?”