Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.