My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

... all comparisons injure.

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

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.