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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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A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has th...more

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

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It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it i...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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What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, an...more

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So now begins the first war with Cordelia' in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues me. I continually fall back, and i...more

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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which yo...more

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My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary yo...more

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Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only means something through the interpretation love gi...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

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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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If I could forget you! Is my love then a work of memory? Even if time expunged everything from its tablets, expunged even memory itself, my relation t...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