The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

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.

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

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.