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.

The God that can be named is not God.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

It is modest of the nightingale not to require anyone to listen to it; but it is also proud of the nightingale not to care whether any one listens to it or not.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.