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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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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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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

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Hope is a passion for the possible.

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to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.