In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

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

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.