"The absolute paradox is that God, the eternal, has entered into time, the temporal, and has become man."

"The aesthetic is the immediate, the ethical is the choice, the religious is the infinite passion of inwardness."

"Dread is an adventure that every man has to undergo."

"The greatest danger for man, in the whole of his life, is to lose himself, to lose his own self."

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence. The Word of God cannot be heard…"