People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Genius never desires what does not exist.
May new sufferings torment your soul.
What labels me, negates me.
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.
To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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