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- To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
- People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and…
- At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…
- 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…
- This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were,…
- Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
- So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in…
- No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to…
- To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does…
- In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So…
- If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
- The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be…
- How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated…
- ...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science and technology -…
- ...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…
- ... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It…
- ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
- Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so…
- One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to…
- And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly…
- Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock…
- Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived…
- The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing --…
- Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
- During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the…
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