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- And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
- If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would…
- Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective…
- Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression…
- An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get…
- This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is…
- If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
- Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
- The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be…
- It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express…
- Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a…
- All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
- It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you…
- ...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If…
- When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised.…
- ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
- ...it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on…
- ...the greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience…
- A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it…
- Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to…
- It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too…
- The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards…
- The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not…
- To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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