Hope is passion for what is possible.

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.