I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray.
Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate.
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.
Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?
How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?