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

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

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

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

... 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!

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.