Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
It is impossible to exist without passion
Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.
Where there are two people, there is untruth.
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.
On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.
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