I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.