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

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes - we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.