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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
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Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
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God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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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 is fighting not with man, but with God.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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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 of what God bids him to do.
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Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
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Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.
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