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

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

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.