Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!