Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

Faith is holding onto uncertainties with passionate conviction.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

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

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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

The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

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