This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

Truth has always had many loud proclaimers, but the question is whether a person will in the deepest sense acknowledge the truth, allow it to permeate his whole being, accept all its consequences, and not have an emergency hiding place for himself and a Judas kiss for the consequence.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.