People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.

Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.