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

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.