...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He is always creating... He wants to create a new human being. To need God is to become new. And to know God is the crucial thing.

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

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

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

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.

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

To be a saint is to will the one thing.