Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.

It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.