I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . .

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.