Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

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.

My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.