The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

In order to learn true humility (I use this expression to describe the state of mind under discussion), it is good for a person to withdraw from the turmoil of the world (we see that Christ withdrew when the people wanted to proclaim him king as well as when he had to walk the thorny path), for in life either the depressing or the elevating impression is too dominant for a true balance to come about. Here, of course, individuality is very decisive.

Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.