There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.