It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.