Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.