Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

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.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

Take it and return it: the kiss of love.