Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

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.

A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that.