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The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
This age will die not as a result of some evil, but from a lack of passion.
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.
Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not.
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe
Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.