Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

Don't forget to love yourself.

This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.