To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

...the person who surrenders absolutely to God, with no reservations, is absolutely safe. From this safe hiding-place he can see the devil , but the devil cannot see him.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

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

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.