It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

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

The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.

I am the Spirit that denies.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.