A confession has to be part of your new life.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.