When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .