This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.