This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.