There can be no faith without risk.

...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

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

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

To be a saint is to will the one thing.