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

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

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It is now my intention to draw out from the story of Abraham the dialecticalconsequences inherent in it, expressing them in the form ofproblemata, in ...more

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You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life must have continuity, and this your life lacks...more

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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 renou...more