Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?