What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.