It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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

To love another person is to help them love God.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.