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

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

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.