The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express in the remotest way what they have understood, but rather the opposite.

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

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.

...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.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.