Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally and happily secured against despair.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.