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 little or much. Every person can do that.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success -- but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it -- alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Boredom is the root of all evil -- the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Do it or don't do it -- you will regret both.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.