Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

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.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

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