The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has a fatherly concern for humankind. Though God has lowered Himself to being that which can be chosen, yet each person must on his part choose. God is not mocked. Therefore the matter stands thus: If a person avoids choosing, this is the same as the presumption of choosing the world.

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

The thing that cowardice fears most is decision

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.