I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

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

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

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.