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.

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

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

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

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.