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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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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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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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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees b...more

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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Chri...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 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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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