Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

What labels me, negates me.

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.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

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.

Don't forget to love yourself.