Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.