It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.