315 quotes found
“Love is the unfathomable ground that is hidden in darkness, but the resolution is the triumphant victor who, like Orpheus, fetches the infatuation of falling in love to the light of day, for the re...”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
“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.”
“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
“People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the disli...”
“In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around...”
“Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.”
“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People cor...”
“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.”
“to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.”
“Sitting calmly on a ship in fair weather is not a metaphor for having faith; but when the ship has sprung a leak, then enthusiastically to keep the ship afloat by pumping and not to seek the harbor...”
“Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.”
“It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but this I do gain and in all eternity can never renounce—it is a self-contradiction. But it takes a ...”
