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- There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite…
- If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl…
- An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get…
- 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…
- Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius.…
- 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…
- ...knowing God is the condition for the sanctification of a human being by God's assistance and according to His intention. Wherever God is, there He…
- ...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…
- 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…
- When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
- Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so…
- If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.
- 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…
- Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into…
- There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you…
- This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
- He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he…
- God is not like a human being; it is not important for God to have visible evidence so that he can see if his cause…
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