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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.

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Without risk faith is an impossibility.

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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.

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Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of no...more

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in everygeneration may not come that far, but none comes further.

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What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the m...more

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If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but notbelieved; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon him...more

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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 sh...more

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The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in his need presses forward to God, the more perfect ...more

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But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking ...more

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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

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Boredom is the root of all evil. It is very curious that boredom, which itself has such a calm and sedate nature, can have such a capacity to initiate...more

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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, ...more

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that h...more