How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.

The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

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

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.