"To be a Christian is the most terrible of all things, if one really means it."

"The greatest thing is to be able to do nothing."

"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth— look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intende…"

"The present age is an age of dissolution, an age of disintegration, an age of destruction."

"The infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so that anyone who has not made this movement has no faith; for only in the infinite resignation does one become conscious of one's eternal val…"